The Royal Gazette (Jamaica)

The Royal Gazette was a Jamaican newspaper.

It was founded in 1779[1] as The Jamaica Mercury, and Kingston Weekly Advertiser by David Douglass and William Aikman[2] and became The Royal Gazette in 1780 after it obtained government patronage.

[3] It was aimed at the white planters and slave-owners on the island and in its early years often contained notices of escaped slaves.

[4] It later became the Royal Gazette and Jamaica Times.

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